Dawn of a New Era-Chapter 551 - 525: So Shady

Chen Shouyi emerged from the spatial passage, pushed out his bicycle, stepped on the pedal, mounted the bike, and rushed home.

The road was much busier now.

Everywhere were people with fierce expressions, strong and muscular martial artists. To maintain order, military patrols on the road had increased several times, and as a result, he didn’t encounter any disturbances along the way.

This made Chen Shouyi feel somewhat melancholic, as if something was missing!

He checked his attribute panel:

Strength: 19.6

Agility: 19.6

Constitution: 19.6

Intelligence: 19.7

Perception: 17.5

Willpower: 18.0

Energy Accumulation: 12.86

Faith Value: 2289.3.

In these days, the Faith Value has been surging continuously, with a daily income of one hundred sixty to seventy points. In just over ten days, the Faith Value has accumulated by more than two thousand.

Hmm, I’ll wait until it accumulates to four thousand.

Then I’ll upgrade my advanced giant battle body to the full level all at once!

While deep in thought, someone suddenly crossed the road.

It was a white woman with delicate features, looking in her twenties, wearing a T-shirt and a skirt. Unlike the usual reddish skin of white people, she appeared extraordinarily fair, with a pair of long, white legs that were dazzlingly bright.

Seeing that he was about to crash, Chen Shouyi’s reflexes were incredibly quick, and in that instant, he suddenly put his feet on the ground.

"Screech!"

The soles of his shoes rubbed violently against the ground, creating thick smoke.

The bike went from moving to standing still in an instant.

"Are you OK?"

The United States’ intelligence agent, Sara, stood bewilderedly in the middle of the road, neither standing nor lying down. She had been waiting on this street for quite some time. Finally, she had her chance today and wanted to create a slight incident for a perfect encounter with God Chen.

But she didn’t expect the other party to react so quickly and stop in time:

"I’m fine, thank you! And you?" she said, nervously, her heart racing.

"I’m fine too."

After fluently speaking a few lines of English, Chen Shouyi felt a sense of unfulfillment, smacked his lips, as it was his first time speaking English with a foreigner, realizing it wasn’t that difficult. He was prepared to say something more, pondered for a moment, and finally said:

"Goodbye!"

Since nothing was wrong, there was really nothing much left to say.

Then he stepped on the bicycle pedal and passed by her.

Sara watched Chen Shouyi’s figure disappear into the distance. It took her a while to come to her senses. Suddenly, she felt regret and patted her forehead. Such a great opportunity had been wasted. Why did she have to speak English with God Chen, knowing his strong Chinese accent suggested his English wasn’t good?

...

Evening.

A large number of armed soldiers surrounded a factory.

The auction didn’t require Chen Shouyi’s personal involvement; the government directly took over.

He only needed to take the Demigod Flesh out of the space.

"A total of 12834.52 kilograms, President Chen, would you verify it?" a deputy mayor, specifically in charge of this matter and wearing a protective suit, said politely.

Chen Shouyi nodded indifferently: "Let’s call it twelve tons to keep it simple. Sorry for the trouble to the city these days!"

The few people exchanged glances and suddenly looked delighted.

"No trouble at all, President Chen, you’re too polite!"

Over eight hundred kilograms is not a trivial amount. Compared to this, a little trouble or fatigue is nothing.

The machine roared.

A large number of workers in protective suits carefully sliced large chunks of meat into small pieces using machinery and then sealed them in preservation boxes.

This is a high-risk material.

To ordinary people, it’s like the deadliest poison.

Chen Shouyi suddenly realized he hadn’t thought it through properly. Once auctioned, if anyone rashly or accidentally came into contact with it, it would mean a life lost.

And the number of incidents won’t likely be small, which would be a grave sin.

Chen Shouyi quickly raised this issue.

To his surprise, the deputy mayor in charge of the matter looked a bit awkward upon hearing this:

"This... President Chen, you are overthinking it. Non-martial artists participating in the auction won’t see the actual item; they can only receive a receipt that allows them to trade thirty percent of the auctioned quantity for Divine Blood or Divine Marrow within two days."

After hearing this, Chen Shouyi’s face froze, and he could only think of one word in his heart.

Black, it was truly black.

One jin of Demigod Flesh can only be exchanged for 0.3 jin of Divine Blood in the end.

And 0.3 jin of Divine Blood is less effective than 0.3 jin of Demigod Flesh.

The remaining portion naturally just goes to waste.

There’s nowhere to complain about it, because these leftover residues from separation are deadly to non-martial artists, so they’re useless even if you get them.

However, this doesn’t affect Chen Shouyi at all.

The losses are only borne by the non-martial artist level bidders.

And he believes they won’t mind too much either.

Such thoughtful and comprehensive service not only eliminates risks but also saves him the hassle of finding a laboratory.

Entirely worry-free and effortless.

Though there is quite a bit of shrinkage.

...

Early next morning.

The whole Hedong City was bustling with excitement.

Due to the number of attendees far exceeding expectations,

the originally booked auction venue was not sufficient. The Provincial Government decisively set up twenty temporary auction venues to divert the crowd.

One of the safe zones, a small auction venue dedicated to welcoming martial artists.

Compared to the lively scenes in other auction venues,

this place was undoubtedly VIP treatment.

Qin Liuyuan, in the last second, was smiling and nodding in greeting with a martial artist from out of town, and in the next second, a trace of depression appeared on his face.

"A bit crowded, isn’t it?" Luo Peibin whispered beside him. "Twenty-four have shown up already."

"Hmm," Qin Liuyuan nodded, feeling deeply frustrated. "Mainly because people from the Capital City came, wonder who leaked the news!"

Then he asked: "How much money have you got ready?"

"Over a hundred million, I sold everything I could! How about you?" Luo Peibin replied.

What?

Over a hundred million!

Qin Liuyuan was stunned, feeling both mentally and physically battered. He opened his mouth and, with difficulty, said: "How do you have so much money?"

This newly emerged martial artist from Jiangnan Province actually had more money than he did.

Of course, before the mutation, his total assets amounted to tens of billions.

But most of it was in real estate, shops, and some company stocks, and also bank savings. However, with the onset of the mutation, companies went bankrupt, real estate and shops depreciated, even bank deposits were lost.

Almost overnight, he was back to square one.

These past days, he could only gather over 20 million in total.

"Maybe my investments were more conservative. Whenever I had money, I would buy physical gold. You should know how fast gold has appreciated in these two years?" Luo Peibin said proudly. 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

"I know!" Qin Liuyuan said gloomily.

He regretted bringing up this topic.

Recalling the opportunities he missed a few days ago, he felt like giving himself a few hard slaps.

Although he didn’t want to discuss it, Luo Peibin still spoke with great enthusiasm.

"Do you know how many times gold has appreciated now? Three times, it’s simply a huge profit!" Luo Peibin continued, feeling unfulfilled. For a conservative person like him, having his assets triple was the most satisfying investment he could make: "I wonder how much Demigod Flesh this money can buy. If I could get ten or twenty jin, I’d be satisfied."

Qin Liuyuan opened his mouth.

Suddenly, he felt so exhausted.

ps: Second Chapter, around eleven o’clock